Work to remove cladding from nine towers ahead of the results of government tests started in Salford on Sunday. One mechanism to deal with this issue is to introduce a level of transparency into what cladding is used on which buildings, and allow the market to decide.

"Whilst we are clear that our cladding design and insulation significantly differs to that at Grenfell Tower, the external cladding panels did not satisfy our independent laboratory testing or the high standards we set for contractors", Gould said in a statement Thursday, adding that the council had made a decision to "immediately begin preparing to remove these external cladding panels".

A London Fire Bridgade spokesman said: "Nearly 60 firefighters and officers dealt with a fire in a flat on Mansfield Road Gospel Oak this evening".

Schools and hospitals anxious about fire risk in the wake of the Grenfell disaster are being urged to make use of the Government's building material testing facility.

The council's leader Georgia Gould said the local authority was left with little choice when the fire service advised there was nothing to be done to ensure the safety of the residents.

Numerous estate's dwellers have raised concerns about fire safety issues in recent days, and once again pressured borough authorities on the subject at a meeting on Thursday.

As part of the response, ministers announced that tests would be carried out on materials used on hundreds of social housing buildings amid fears their cladding could be similar to that used on Grenfell Tower.

The new figure is a significant jump from the 34 high-rise buildings in England deemed unsafe by the government on Saturday. The blaze claimed the lives of at least 79 people, although the death toll is still expected to rise.

Responding to criticism that the testing program was not running quickly enough, he said landlords must get potentially flammable building materials tested as soon as possible.

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